vxlan: vxlan dev should inherit lowerdev's gso_max_size

vxlan dev currently ignores lowerdev's gso_max_size, which adversely
affects TSO performance of liquidio if it's the lowerdev.  Egress TCP
packets' skb->len often exceed liquidio's advertised gso_max_size.  This
may happen on other NIC drivers.

Fix it by assigning lowerdev's gso_max_size to that of vxlan dev.  Might as
well do likewise for gso_max_segs.

Single flow TSO throughput of liquidio as lowerdev (using iperf3):

    Before the patch:    139 Mbps
    After the patch :   8.68 Gbps
    Percent increase:  6,144 %

Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index 1e54fb5c883ad77c3d51752fcae18dd33d8f4e95..714f74fb823aac4da3fdb3f237097e4341ba9a42 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -2926,6 +2926,11 @@ static int vxlan_dev_configure(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev,
                return -EINVAL;
        }
 
+       if (lowerdev) {
+               dev->gso_max_size = lowerdev->gso_max_size;
+               dev->gso_max_segs = lowerdev->gso_max_segs;
+       }
+
        if (conf->mtu) {
                int max_mtu = ETH_MAX_MTU;